Flashback...
First week in Paris
"Oh, whoops… sorry." the sarcasm in Serena's voice couldn't have been more evident as she step onto Dan's feet and his dinner plate strewn purposefully across the floor.
"Jerk," Dan muttered, leaning down to the cold ground to pick clean them up.
"Don't I know it," she threw him a cocky grin and pushed past him, before spotting her dad and Dan's dad approaching the kitchen.
"What's happening here?" Dan's dad asking as he says analyzing what Dan is doing "did you trip boy?" he ask concern.
"Yes, dad!" he lied, giving Serena a stern eye.
"Somehow, you two need to compromise" Serena's dad tell both of them.
Present...
The bell jingled quietly when Dan pulled the classroom door open and stepped inside. This is all new to him to be in school back in New York City, he hardly have any words to describe it. It's definitely different. It's a co-ed school and there's nothing wrong in being in a mix school, it's wrong to be in a new school when you're a senior.
"Hey, Daniel," a girl smile at him, making him feel comfortable for his first day of school.
"Hi" he says to himself and walk towards her "is this seat taken?" he ask politely and she nodded her head "oh, sorry" he says embarrassed. Of course the seat is taken, it's a senior year. No one here, is a stranger beside him.
"Sorry, are you Daniel too?" she asks looking like she said something wrong "I was calling him," she said as she pointed at the young muscular guy who just push Dan aside and sit beside this lovely lady.
4 hours of school is a total misery for Dan, it's not that he don't like being in school but he just forgot how cold and rude American teenagers are to other "alien" like him. He is American too but to be new and senior, this is not the place he wants to be.
"Hey, Dan," a girl smile fairly at Dan as she closes her locker door and smile "you're Dan, right?"
"You're talking to me?" he asked not wanting to be embarrassed once again "how do you know my name?" he looked up, nodding in recognition "Hayden." He grinned looking at her file, pushing back his locker door.
"I must be phychic" she shrugged.
"Maybe..."
"Welcome to Chelsea Prep," she says with a smile when her group of friends came closer to them.
"Ok," he says with a reply of smile to her.
Flashback...
8 days in Paris...
"What do you want, Dan" It wasn't a question from Serena, it's actually not.
"I was just wondering… if we could be friends"
"No way..."
"Why?"
"It must be really hard not having either of you best friends here, huh?" Serena ask with a harsh tone.
"Is that why you're talking to me? To make me feel bad? Seriously?"
"No.. I just-" se started, pulling a hand through her blonde hair, frustrated.
"I'm going to be late for spa"
"But-" His liquid brown eyes were fixated on Serena "friends?"
"Don't care. Bye." She left without any ramose in her face.
Present...
When lunchtime rolled around, Dan was so happy to leave that he skipped to his locker. Only, it was an emotional skip, because if he actually did skip it would definitely attract the wrong kind of attention. he'd never been good at skipping, anyway. So he want to go out for lunch and not to eat some mac and cheese from school cafeteria. Not that he mind but he don't want to feel like a loser.
Flashback...
10 days in Paris...
"Mac and Cheese for dinner, Eric?" Serena retort looking at her brother.
"Hey, I have to babysit everyone so a thank you would be nice!" he said scooping a scoop of mac anc cheese to Serena's plate and smile "eat up kiddo!"
"Geee, thank you "
"Why are you so mean to Humphrey?" He ask as he scoop himself a small scoop of the pasta "he's not bad..."
"Why don't you date him!" she said smiling.
"I mean, true enough you don't remember him but he's a good kid, kiddo!" he said trying to tell Serena that Dan is not a bad guy "he wants to be your friend!" he said "try and be civil... get to know him!"
"He's weird... look!" she said pointing outside the window as she can see that Dan is walking outside the garden with torchlight "see what I mean..."she said raising an eyebrow to her brother.
"Give him a chance and there's a torchlight there... go" he said, handing Serena the torchlight "bring this with..." he said also giving Serena a zip lock of cookies.
Present...
"Watch it..." a muscular guy hit Dan from the back.
"Do you like it here?" Serena asks Dan as she is standing outside the road leaning against her town car with a driver. She can see Dan walking slowly as he steps down from the stairs.
Flashback...
In the tree house
"Do you always have to be that mean to me?" Dan asks and take off his jacket "do you want a drink?"
"What is this, you can't have a drink up here" she said, looking around as she can't see anything liquid.
"Well, I have my ways" he said with a smirk, he lift up a couple of pillows up from the small chair and lift up a small and tiny thread "there you go!" he said, while searching for something underneath"
"You serious?" Serena said impressed "you have that covered?" she ask again and Dan nodded with a smile "you smile a lot don't you..."
"I do sometimes..."
"Who is that?" Serena asks as he wants to be civil with Dan "beside you... who is he?" she ask pointing at the photo in the frame.
"That's my brother..." he answered with a sad eye "my late brother"
"Sorry..."
"We build this tree house together..."
"It's a nice house!" she said, honestly.
"He wanted to be an architect but he got sick and..."
"You don't have to explain..."
Present
"What are you doing here?" Dan asks, looking as if he just saw a ghost.
"I've been emailing you," she said taking a step closer to Dan "didn't you even check your phone?" she asked nervously.
"I check my email at home," he said confused "what's the big urgent?"
"Don't you have a blackberry or any data plan in your phone?" she asked again annoyed "what year do you think you are in!"
"What's the big urgent Serena?"
"I don't have your number..."
"You never ask..."
"Give it to me now..." Serena insisted, she hand Dan her blackberry for Dan to put down his number in her cell phone.
"There..." he says as he saved the number in her phone "what's the big emergency?" he asks again because Serena wouldn't come all the way from her school to Chelsea just to see him for his number.
"How's school?"
"Serena!"
"Dan!"
"School's alright..." he answered and he can see that Serena is taking a step further "what's going on?"
"I call you..." she says with a smile on her face "just be free today after school..."she says smiling and wink at Dan.
"What?" Dan ask confused.
"Just be free okay, I will call..." Serena said and whine up the window and leave.
Dear readers, thank you for all the reviews. I really appreciate it a lot. I have a lot of ideas for this fic. So if you have any difficulties of understanding, I'm sorry. I get excited and ideas flowing like water sometimes.